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Hartford History Center Subject Guides: Poetry

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Artifacts

Library sampler

Call Number: 

ARTIFACT SAMPLER

Format: 

3-D Object

Embroidered Sampler

Poem about children, birds and trees.

Library samplet

 

 

 

Periodicals

Voices.

Vinal, Harold, 1891-1965.

Call Number 

PS614 .V9

Format: 

Poetry -- Periodicals.

Publication Date 

1945-2020, 1921-1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published Poetry

The Echo, with Other Poems.

Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.

Call Number 

PS703 .A5 E4

Publication Date 

1807

Subject: 

United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1809 -- Poetry.

 

A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington: Late President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States. Adapted to the 22d of Feb. 1800.

Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.

Call Number 

PS703 .A5 P74

Publication Date 

1800

Subject: 

Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Poetry.

 

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Manuscript Collections

Kitti Danahy Friendship Album

Call Number 

MS 1885 DANAHY

Date 

1885-1893

Illustration from friendship album

Friendship Album

Call Number 

MS 1827 DICKINSON

Date 

1827-1828

Poetry for Children

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts Together with More Beasts for Worse Children and Cautionary Tales / Verses by H. Belloc; Pictures by B.T.B.

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.

Call Number 

PR6003 .E45 B3 1928 HCOLL

Publication Date 

1924

Subject: 

Animals -- Poetry.

 

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Published Poetry: Lydia Sigourney

The Boy's Reading-Book: in Prose and Poetry, for Schools.

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard).

Call Number 

PE1120 .S48

Publication Date 

1939, 1839

 

The Girl's Reading-Book: in Prose and Poetry; for Schools.

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

Call Number 

PE1120 .S49

Publication Date 

1838

 

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Pamphlets

Program, Membership list, Officers 1944-45. The Poetry Club of Hartford. 1944  

 

A World of Light presented by The New League for Poetry of Hartford, Conn. New League for Poetry of Hartford, Conn.  1951 

 

The Silver Path, A Book of Poetry.  Written and illustrated by boys and girls in the Hartford Public Schools. Hartford Public Schools. 1952 

Cover of The Silver PathTitle page of The Silver Path

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hartford Imprints

The Conquest of Canäan: a Poem in Eleven Books.

Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817.

Call Number 

HI 1785 DWIGHT

Publication Date 

1785

 

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Published Poetry: Wallace Stevens

The Auroras of Autumn.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Call Number 

PS3537 .T4753 A85

Publication Date 

1950

Edition 

First edition

 

A Celebration for Wallace Stevens.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Call Number 

PS3537 .T4753 Z623 1954 OVERSIZE HCOLL

Publication Date 

1954

 

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